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- PEOPLE, Page 43The Mystery of U
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- By Howard G. Chua-Eoan
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- In the music biz, platinum is the most important color, and
- Vivid, the debut album by LIVING COLOUR, comes in that shade.
- "It took almost a year for the album to get any real
- attention," says VERNON REID, who founded the New York
- City-based band. Now the group, including WILL CALHOUN, MUZZ
- SKILLINGS and lead singer COREY GLOVER, has become the first
- black rock band to find mainstream acceptance since the breakup
- of SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE in the '70s. Its single, Cult of
- Personality, is zooming up the charts and burning up MTV. "Why
- would four young blacks do something completely defined as a
- white thing?" asks Reid, and then answers himself. "We don't
- have to be certain things to be a rock-'n-roll band." But why
- spell color with a u? "It just looked so mysterious. All that
- falls flat in London, where everything with color has a u. But
- here it does stand out." Vividly.
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